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Fork Me

Posted by Tari

D: A big snowstorm hit NYC on Friday and my flight to Pittsburgh was cancelled.

But thanks to Meph’s awesome ninja abilities, we found a flight that hadn’t been canceled on JetBlue.

So I bought it.

And I made it to Pittsburgh to have a wonderful weekend with Meph which included a late night run to MadMex, watching movies on a huge HDTV (O.o) and just huddling for warmth in the hotel.

^^ It’s nice to wind down every once in a while.

Final Fantasy-wise, I didn’t get anything done. No one wanted us for a party (typical of Shiva) on Sunday night.

I did however find out that one of the people I all but begged to join their Salvage group and they were all “Lol, we have enough, thanks” accepted someone new to the group. To add insult to injury, this person was a Bard, you know, the job I was offering to bring. So…yeah.

If you’re going to lie, be a bit better about it. In fact, why lie at all? The truth is much better~ like, “I don’t know you well enough to let you tag along” or “I’m not comfortable in your abilities”.

This crap was just so disheartening, I just had to get up and go do something else. It’s such a bother–wanting to quit, but kind of still enjoying one aspect of the game (Doing something with your partner in a long distance relationship) that you don’t want to, but hating the elitist, niche-clinging environment that surrounds you.

Do you…people NOT remember what it was like?

Fork. Me. Done.

Cry More!

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Well, the dream of joining Jowah in her awesomeness has quickly been destroyed. D:

lulz, if I were to join, I’d have to quickly quit my job and become a hermit in my home.

And you know, with NYU Grad School being like “Where r our monies?” I can’t do that.

So, goodbye dream of actually doing stuff. It was a flirtatious, bitter-sweet affair.

Back to the drawing board, yeah?

But thanks to Jowah and Kerberoz for giving me the info. ^^ Was better to find out now rather than later.

This quote is brought to you…

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…by the letter “L”!

D: For all his abuse, I still randomly message him on Messenger. I’m not sure why…

I grew up seeing how men were controlled by a woman and couldn’t outthink or manuever them, so I made it my goal to suck more than any woman does and thus be considered more complicated.

*wave*

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So today I checked the forums to find out Dais and Legolass are leaving the game/taking a break/…something like that :/

They had both mentioned it, but I didn’t think it’d happen so fast *_*

I hardly got to know them, but they both seemed very nice and I enjoyed the talks we’d have together. They were like, the only two sackholders that kind of went out of their way to make me feel somewhat at home.

Especially Dais. Ever since that scarring Limbus trip (Btw, if any of you read this, THIS is why you haven’t seen me there. That and gil doesn’t grow on trees! But mostly the former D:), he has been sending me random tells, supporting me, cheering me on…even though sometimes I wanted to whack him over the head and just be like…”STOP BEING SO GODDAMN OPTIMISTIC!”. Asking me how I’m doing, how do I find the shell and etc. It may not have seen like much to him, but it meant the world to me. That’s how a shell/organization is supposed to be–don’t babysit me, but hell, don’t just accept someone then throw them to the curb. Even if it’s once, you could check up on them.

That one act that would randomly continue to manifest itself in tells from him at some random points throughout my game play made joining CoD worthwhile sometimes. I’ll be honest: I don’t feel at home here. I’m pretty much unhappy at logging on to seeing nothing going on (yakkity-yakkity). I feel very uncomfortable. Probably because everyone is very established and has known each other for what appears to be an eternity. Maybe they were even there when Square was making the concept of “Final Fantasy XI”. Who knows?

There seems to be no room to make a name for myself. And I’ve come to accept it and just keep to myself. The wholre hired mercenary crap. Oh, Dynamis. Guess I’ll go. Oh, Dynamis again. I’ll be there. Oh, BV2 again. I don’t have access. Have fun with that.

 :/ Damn, Meph and his BST tendencies are rubbing off on me.

So what do I do? I got tired of actively trying, simply because with my lifestyle, I don’t have the energy to just toss away. I stopped saying “Hi” when I signed on, if I logged on and no one was saying anything/nothing was planned, I’d just take off the pearl. Yar. I’d rather go pearlless than sit in a place with people on and not know what to say or…it was just too quiet for my liking.

Don’t get me wrong. I can be shy in RL. I can be pleasant, shake your hand. Talk to you. But when I find out we have something in common?

BAM, I’m like…clinging to your foot, chatting off your ear *_*. Just haven’t gotten the opportunity to show that side of me yet. Before this would kill me to no end, I’d look for opening and the like. lol, chalk it up to the lack of sleep, but I just feel “*shrug*” about it right now.

But anyway~ lol, though I never really got to know you-know you Dais (will be stalking you on MSN, mwahahaha!) I’ll miss those tells! I started to get addicted!~

And Lego-Ego! I’ll miss you tons! He also made me feel like I had someone to talk to in the shell. We’d be chatting during Dynamis, I’d be crying that I was sleepy, he’d be telling me I was [too weak] for being sleepy >:/! He’d be dying every second…never there when I had to sing Minuet/March…always DYING.

lol, hopefully you’ll check your PMs. I need to bug the hell out of you on MSN as well D:

But anyway guys. It can’t be as sappy as I’d like it to be. ^_^ But, this little Taru Bard will definitely note your absence and whimper a bit at it D:.

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On a random note: 64 RDM. It nearly killed me. From the sucky ass parties, to my first few random invites that turned out pretty well. Officially start leveling with Meph the next time we’re able. I like took…60 different pictures of myself posing in THE hat, but le sigh…none of them are really worth it! D: I’ll be sure to take a good one and post it soon.

Could she do it, people?? Could she actually attain another 75!?! Lol, I love the reaction I get from people “:( Tari, why only one 75?” then I tell them about my whole slew of other jobs that haven’t gotten quite high yet. Then they’re all “*_* You’ve leveled more than me”

lol, I just have Job ADD!

Also–contacted SpikeFlail of Ragnarok. *_* No one’s e-mailed me back yet so yeah…we’ll see how that goes.

60!

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RDM 60!

No pictures because I don’t have my hat yet. I hope to get it tonight before Dynamis-whatever (Please not Windy, Please not Windy, Please not Windy…)

D:!

Elvaans can’t cast!

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This weekend was dull yet…not so dull!

Firstly, Dynamis-Xarcabard on Friday night! *TWO* Duelist’s Chapeau…and some other stuff >.>. There was a WAR I think…I forget what else. But TWO Duelist’s Chapeau!

Do you know what this means!?

It means that if I keep leveling RDM the way I am, and no one else suddenly just shows up to claim it, I’m getting closer and closer to the possibility of not waiting for years to get one! lol, or knowing my luck we decide to not do Xarcabard for a while and when we do, it never drops~! D: Lulz. But I’ll consider myself lucky. There doesn’t seem to be a long ass line for this hat so I’m sure I’ll have a shorter wait than most career RDMs.

I had to watch in jealousy as the linkshell did Bv2 x 2. -_- Cashmere cloth dropped. I wonder if they even sold the one from the last run? D: Lulz. I’ll be glad to take it off your hands~ Tari wants a manteeeeeeeel.

I managed to get my RDM halfway to 60 this weekend as well…D: So this means…Warlock’s Tabard! I also needed help getting my tights in Garlaige Citadel and Taruchyaan (Ho’taru!), Dammian and Soloris were heading out there anyway–I tagged along.

lol, after like…an hour and something after having gotten Sol’s tights first (I…so very much suck with randoming), Sol spotted my coffer near that damn undead.

I’d just like to thank you all for sticking with me. After the first effort failed, I was trying to push/shoo them away. I’m so used to people just randomly warping on me, or ditching me if they don’t have the time to help me out, but they actually stayed all that time, waiting at every thirty minute interval to help me get the coffer. Ho’taru even went to the past to get behind the third gate for me. *_*; I couldn’t really express myself via typing, but it really touched me. The only people that were that kind were in StewiesAssassins–they’d stay up all night if it meant helping me get something done. I’m not used to people being so kind…so really, you guys have no idea how much it meant to me that when I tried to shoo you guys away and you’d respond “:x We can wait”.

lol, I was even like “Ugh, I’ll come back tomorrow at some point” but Ho’taru and Sol’s madness of “urface!” and…calling certain peopl goats (>.> I’m still trying to catch up. Who’s the goat and is EVERYONE a pig or just certain people? o.O)  and etc. amused me as we ran though the tunnels of the Citadel. D: Especially when I tried to mpk people with bats! Bats!~ lol, hopefully this bunch doesn’t get to see my crazy side when I get too comfortable.

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The rest of the weekend was dedicated to getting lost in Attohwa Chasm when trying to surprise Meph with a vist (lulz), a botched ENM (rofl, Totenwutsit killing us at 45% and fighting on Darksday and having Lullaby get resisted. Just…lulz) and my first hardcore Dualbox attempt! lol, I’ll have to try and do this more often, but omg, it made me so dizzy. I was helping someone with an ENM and after leaving myself in Behemoth’s Dominion on Friday I had a rough idea as to when the bastard died.

Meph was out and about so I took him on his WHM to the Dominion, while friggin trying to climb the mountain of DEATH in the Chasm. lol, not a good idea. But anyway, I made it up the mountain and Meph made it to the Dominion. KB popped, SoulFire got and I told everyone in the LS and people started heading out.

…not before I got Meph killed while I was recasting Reraise III. Lulz. I thought I was safe, but when they were kiting it..KB must have thought it would be funny to kill everyone in the area. D: Meph hit the floor like a stone. Lego was heading out there so he raised him (Whew~ Raise III, go!). At least we got ToD.

*_* Now, I’d like to think I’m getting the hang of this. And I’d *like* to think I’m helping out. While at work, I’m just running Tari to things to get ToD..(I am the Adamantoise Queen~) on things. Now that Meph’s okay with it (D:) I’ll be using Meph as well and tossing him in the remote corners of the world to help me out…because you know the whole…”can’t be in two places at once” madness.

Apparently we got Cerberus at some point, but I was knocked out D: Congrats and the like!

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After a day of hard leveling on Sunday, I warped out to the Sanctuary of Zitah to help Meph level his BLM. He’s now a stunning 35. D: I’ve never seen a boy link so much. STOP LINKING SHIT! lol, I was mostly responsible for sleeping the Gobs he’d drag along while fighting at the Outpost.

And you know that saying “White boys can’t jump?” Well…

Seriously, they look like they’re in the middle of some kind of strange, sparkly seizure. It’s just…wrong on so many levels. The females look a bit better, but males are just…yech! To think I’ll have to be dealing with seeing this all the time once we start duoing. Orz.

D: Then we had a warp duel! ^_- Guess who won? If only by a second or three!

Fastcast ftw! Have I mentioned how much I looooove this job!? Red is love! Meph thinks I look ugly in my tabard…apparently shoulder pads “died” in the ’80s. What does he know about fashion!?

P.S: lol, Maiev…found out that the Maiev bugging me on my server was none other than Breaze. He’s your number one fan apparently. *_* So..um yeah. Take that how you want to. lol. He’s level 19 RDM now, I think! Oh the joys of powerleveling yourself through the dunes!

Ara~

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So…

You can apparently buy a Shining Cloth with points..

But not Cashmere.

I guess in a weird way it makes sense. Cashmere is more expensive. And people do want gil.

So…someone can essentially get a Noble’s Tunic made.

But I can never hope to get a Manteel.

Mmhm. Fair enough.

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Salvage last night…I wanted to stab someone. Including myself. Mephiston and I were falling asleep over the phone…and it was just…just a plain outright mess. -_- I just…

*_* I don’t have it in me anymore.

And a big thank you to Tadieal. D: Manaburning his butt off while I sat there in my lagtastic glory to reclaim my 75! Now I need a decent buffer. -_- I…really…REALLY don’t want to merit, but looks like I’ll have to.

:/ And this crazy Tuufless/Maiev impersonator needs to stop! 

Arrrgh!

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Okay, first Tuufless

Now Maiev !

Is there some new option that allows you to just randomly say hello to people on other servers?

Is there one guy out there messing with me?

Or are you really both just making mules and logging on Shiva for no reason? o.O

>< I’m so connnffffuuusseeeed!

[Sneak Attack] Mithra Tails

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>.> Logging on at work and discovering several mithra tails in your face is just…disturbing to say the least.

Hanging out~

In the Valley of Sorrows!~

Watching people dieeeee…is priceless. ^___^

Not really, but I spat out some of my water when I saw someone training Velociraptors~

And, I ordered my laptop last night. Meph, my computer nerd, checked out all the specs and apparently it’s a really good deal (1000? Psh) for some the latest and good crap…

<.< So yeah. If my colleague isn’t a jerk (He’s network admin), I may actually be *playing* from work, and not…lagging my ass to hell and back D:

Banji is Level 5! D: Soon she’ll be in Valkurm Dunes, sneak attacking your mobs. Watch out!

:O!

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I logged on this morning at work and happened to see someone training Biast right by me!

D: Started screaming in Dynamis shell…but of course no one was on. Quickly changed to main pearl and got Zoomzoomyepyep to come out with Overlord and kill!

The lagging was something out of this world, but somehow I managed to sing dual march and dual ballad and get elegy on it.

We got the drop!

ZZYY lotted a 997 but was so kind as to pass it to me. D: A haste piece for Bard, zomg~

lol, thank you!

><

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Raisins suck. You ask them not to put it in your oatmeal and they go ahead and do it anyway…

:/ Poor Meph, a rabbit in Bibiki Bay killed him while he was soloing. *hugs*

I missed clearing Xarcabard last night due to us starting late. I mean…wtf. Start at 8, enter at 9/9:30?

Before, maybe this would have been okay. I am a stickler for time. 5 minutes late? Fine. 10 minutes? ‘hokay. twenty, thirty? Fine?

Longer than that? Jesus Christ, I do have a bed to go to. I do get up early in the morning. Sadly I’m not in PST.

So yeah, wasn’t too happy about missing that Dynamis Lord kill…but…life comes first.

Sadly, it also means missing out on a lot of things with my linkshell. As well as with others. Salvage? LULZ.

Bah, maybe this won’t work out after all D:

PS:

HOLY CRAP. COMP USA IS GOING OUT OF BUSINESS? D: HITTING THAT SHIT UP TODAY! LAPTOP, GOOOOO!

PSS: TUUFLESS?? THE TUUFLESS?? >.> ARE YOU ON SHIVA NOW???? You signed off twenty minutes after I logged on. Lol, I just planted my butt outside of Xarcabard after I left Dynamis last night. *_*

And if that wasn’t THE Tuufless, hi random person who said hi to me this morning? D:

Pass!

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On Tuesday, there was some Dynamis-Windy to be had (someone kill me).

If I remember correctly, we received BST and SAM? I think there was one more…but I forget. x: I was mostly looking for the SMN piece, but of course it didn’t drop!

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So yesterday, I was supposed to go with Tadieal’s group to Salvage (roflz) but I remembered Blammor had asked for help with his newly formed Salvage linkshell.

So I was like…meh, why the hell not.

So I got this bright blue pearl (ew..) and after an HOUR of Blammor trying to explain the rules…we finally made parties and went in with 8 people to Bhaflau.

…It was strange, because for once, I was the one with the most experience. Mephiston and I really. Blammor would lead the way and he asked me if I could handle cells..

I was like…wait…wut?

I was very close to saying “HELL NO, WTF”

But…really. What if one day I decided to lead my own group (lulz)? I should get used to it.

So with the help of a red crayon my baby brother left behind and a piece of paper, I hastily drew up a complex table with everyone’s name, their jobs and the appropriate cells that would drop. Mephiston and I were talking to each other on the phone so if I missed anything, I simply had to ask him to refresh my memory.

90% of the people who attended had never done Salvage before so we spent quite a lot of time on the first floor. Which is okay–it was a learning experience. We didn’t get any drops and I was happy to see people were actually *psyched* about it and looking forward to next week’s run. Some people didn’t even know they’d be restricted (”OMG, I’M NEKKID! WUT!?”) and I had a good laugh at their reactions.

But anyway. We entered, and we ran and Meph is backing me up with the word of the evening:

“Pass”

It was exciting for me, hastily scribbling down who had what, asking Meph for like the eight time “D: YU HAVE ZUH MAX MP RIGHTZ?” (lol, I seriously never remembered what he had…and just him, for some reason) and yelling out different variations of “Pass the cells, please”

It went from:

“Pass the cells” to “Please pass” to “PASS” to “PEOPLE, PASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS”, and even “IF I DIDN’T CALL YOUR NAME PAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS” and finally “I WILL HURT YOU ALL IF YOU DON’T PASS THE CELLS!”

With only eight people and the time spent on the first floor, we had way too many cells for our own good. Within ten minutes, everyone had the appropriate cells for the first floor but I guess we got too kill happy and kept killing away D:. Mad Bomber didn’t show his ugly mug but I don’t think anyone really cared.

In the end, I died to some Wamoura (lol @ casting near the door and being agroed from 18 units away. :/??) and we got up to the fourth floor with ten minutes to spare. I think we were a bit low on the melee side so we couldn’t do the whole, “Kill the gears before they warp”. We’d get them to 10% - 30% and they’d warp~. We pulled the Archaic Chariot for “practice” and actually did fairly well! One of our MNKs died but we managed to take it down relatively fast. D: We were rewarded with absolutely nothing! It was a farming run, so obviously we didn’t try for the boss.

If I end up being cell-caller again, and that’s if the static doesn’t self-combust (taking bets now~), there are a few things I have to tweak.

1. Lol, remember what I give Meph. D: He went as WHM, which I’m not used to, and I kept forgetting if I gave him Max MP. Like…the entire run. Even when we got to the Chariot I was like..”YOU HAVE MAX MP?” rather than just look at his damn name on the screen. Lol, sleep deprivation.

2. Remember all the Utsu casters ><. Yar~ I forgot about our poor THF until the last minute. “:/ Oh crap. You need Utsu, don’t you~” Luckily we had an abundance of cells~

3. Remind people–if there’s a case of multiple drops in cells, lot in the order in which I shout. I type at about 96 wpm so giving orders isn’t the problem. But we had issues where people were like “@_@ Do I lot the second or third? Wut? He lotted mine! AIIIIIIEEEEE”

4. I don’t see any other setups do this, but maybe assign someone “Cell Holder”. We had eight people so getting cells wasn’t a problem, but there would be instances where people would accidentally pass and we’d lose something, forcing us to kill an extra mob–wasting a bit of time. If Meph (Bastard always has space) is assigned the last lotter/passer for instance–in the case where someone states they accidentally passed, rather than lose the cell, Meph could lot and hold it for the individual.

 Just an idea.

5. Actually do an excel sheet…so I don’t forget Meph again D:

I’m just spewing from the mouth because I am excited. At least I know I have what it takes to potentially run the show~. But gee, this makes my…third supposed static I’m in? Oi vey -_- And yet I can’t complete anything! D: Hilarious~! 1/3 Hands 1/3 Head 1/3 Feet.

In other news, Ouryu x 2 or 3 tomorrow. Wonder how gil splitting will work~

Meph has helped me attain my RDM coffer keys so it’s simply a case of killing Dark Spark and finding said coffers now. I’m hoping I can hit 58 this weekend. 60 would be optimal! I’d love to wear my hat, but Tabard will work just as well ^_^

Tonight is Dynamis, and I have no idea which zone we’re going to. One person is out of the running for Chapeau…and I’m still not sure how many people exactly there are that want it. At our last run, only three people wanted it and one dropped. I know for sure there are at least two more people…and hell if that is it, I could actually deal with the wait! Also, don’t know about the status of the tabard– so…

Dynamis Xarc and Dynamis Beau (So much to be had here!), go go go!

:/ For the love of God, no more Windy. PLEASE!

And I really should merit this weekend. Even though I hate it so much…

Cowboys and Spacemen

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You know back when you were in Middle School and you’d want to play with some of your fellow classmates and then they’d tell you

“No! You’re not in the ____ club!” or “No! We only play with _____!”

Or…something like that. You know what I’m trying to say!?

FFXI = Middle School.

God FORBID you try to meet new people by doing things with others other than your little “clique”. And then, oh my, you turn around and go “ZOMG, you don’t have any experience tanking/fighting/doing thisrandomevent?”

And you know, you’ll be forced to reply with..

“No, I don’t. You want to know why? Because of asshats like you. Asshats who never want to include anyone in anything other than the people you’re tied to with some kind of umbilical cord. Asshats who never want to give someone a chance. Asshats who then magically expect people to have experience (sans logic here) and be able to find people to do this said event with and…oh gee, they can’t because everyone is too busy doing it with their clique!”

In short: Holy crap, people. We’re not on the playground anymore playing cowboys and spacemen and…and…aliens. And…and horses!

Or whatever it is you used to play!

lol, in short John: I understand your frustration. I think there are just some things that you’ll never get to do…or you’ll do them very late. People are afraid of associating themselves with “garbage” or “trash” or “noobs”–because you know, everyone who’s not with THEM is by default, below them.  They’re afraid if–HOLY CRAP WE DIED TO CHARIOT FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER ;_;!!!!!!!! IT’S THIS NEW PERSON’S FAULT!!!!—that happens, they’ll look completely and utterly horrible and be perceived as the idiots of the game. Why should they care? I’m not too sure.

But don’t quit over it. We can sit here hoping some of these idiots actually think outside the box…together D:. So even if we never finish a Salvage piece, never see anything from Nyzul, never fight the ground kings, the Aht kings, Sea Gods, never get an AF+1…never do anything than bring our twelfth job through the dunes…!!!!!

D: We’ll never be asshats!

Oh yar~

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D: Rua got to 17.8 this weekend. Those last .2 are proving to be difficult!~

Graduation.

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So, I plan to be out of here by the end of February, the very END of March, the latest. I refuse to stay any later than that. My boss tires me out. This place tires me out~ not at all good for my health (sitting on my ass for eleven hours? wtf) or my mental and emotional well-being. He thinks the pay is totally awesome, but he doesn’t realize that I know he’s offered more to people that replaced me when I first temped here and had to leave for school.

Don’t get me wrong, the pay is alright. Especially for someone who’s just getting out of school. It’s just the fact that I know he was willing to pay more, but he didn’t think to offer it to me–his supposed “favorite”. Being frugal will get you in the end, people.

I think he likes to think he outsmarts everyone when in fact…he really doesn’t.

In fact, I feel myself losing brain cells the longer I stay here.

So yeah. I think I’ll most likely move to Florida, find a job that’s actually in my field to see if I like it or if it’s “back to school!” for Tari. I’ll actually be around people I care for (parents and baby brother <3) and can stand as opposed to my bitch, passive-agressive aunts. Lul at talking right outside my door at how I used to be so respectful when I was younger. What, I’m not now? D:D:D:D:D:D:D:

I’ll also get some time to myself. Wtf is up with getting up at 6 AM to get to work for 8 AM getting off at 6 PM–if your boss decides not to be a douche and keep you late for no BLOODY REASON. Oh, and NO overtime. So the latest I get out of here most times is 8 PM. And then getting home around 7:10 PM/10:00 PM only to fall asleep and repeat the cycle?

He doesn’t realize my life is not about making him money.

I think I’ll start sending out e-mails today to places of interest. Today is my official day of graduation from New York University. I’m trying to finish paying off NYU (about 2k~) and I’ll get my degree in time as everyone else (5 to 6 weeks from now).

Hell, if I’m lucky enough maybe the ALI may take me in. Then it’s just a case of finding a place to live in NYC. I love NYC, but I hate my fucking mother’s family D:.

Anyway– most of you are here for a game update.

Friday was Dynamis-Xarc. Got…BRD, RDM, THF, RNG, SMN…er…can’t remember the rest. Whatever, much AF was had by all. I got the Bard.

I was @2 with another person for SMN horn. It dropped and the other person was told to lot. I didn’t contest it because I figured they already had their SMN to 75. I’ll probably never see it again once I get my SMN to 75 (HA!), but you know, whatever.

I’ve stopped expecting anything~ as you can see from my post about my Salvage progress–if you can call it that. So I took to leveling my RDM this weekend. I think with the way the server is, I’m tossing everything to the wayside just to try and get the few parties that do randomly show up in my /sea all. I think this week I’ll focus on getting the rest of my AF out of the way so that I can level freely this weekend.

RDM is 2k til 55 right now. I’ve been getting some nice comments that I handle myself well and I’ve seen a few chain 7s at 53. I can’t say if that’s all my doing, but party members have been complimenting me on mp management and how they’ve never gone without haste/refresh.

My last party though, not so. *_* It’s hard to concentrate with people bickering in your ear~

What else did I do this weekend?

Mm..Galliard trousers NM. Waited around for two hours just to get people to do 1 fight that took all of like 4 minutes. I would have thought we would have gotten more support..but…yeah.

The more I think about it, I’m not sure if CoD will work out for me. Not because of the people, but simply my time constraints. It seemed all fine on paper, but I’ve come to find even the best laid out plans sometimes go to hell D:. If I didn’t have this lameass job, then yes, I’d make it to all the events…but as it is now, I can’t make it to Salvage and can’t make it to the impromptu Sky runs. When I get home, I have time to camp in DA then I go to bed. Not what I was expecting (nothing wrong with camping in DA, but I’d like to do more with the shell and the job doesn’t allow that~), not what I wanted.

Thank you!

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Meph was so kind as to surprise me with a brand new tower fashioned by his own hands.

*_* The images are so clear–I never knew there was fog in The Sanctuary.

The Tree actually looked like there was some depth to it–up ahead was dark and misty and at some points I was like “@_@ The hell am I?”

I didn’t have access to the internet on Tuesday because this new tower refused to let me–but then I found out, it wasn’t the tower at all!

My ethernet cable shorted out D:

So today, I’m gonna trek down Fifth Avenue to Best Buy and try and buy myself a brand new cable. It will be epic!

Thank you sooooo much Meph! It means a lot to me! <3

I already don’t lag anymore!!!

In game, nothing new.

Went to help camp in DA. Nidhogg popped. Pantheon claimed.

Ruaidhri is 16.0 even. Ugh, it seems like there’s no where else to go but to Iron ingots. Tadieal has been awesome and has been giving me his iron ores he gets when he goes mining, but I need to get more! 48 ores for a simple stack of ingots. @_@ Each ore costs about 500-700 on Shiva. I take Rua to the mines sometimes, but they can’t seem to come fast enough~

I want him to be at *least* 18 by Sunday!

Got a long way to go for this goal. And only Meph will be helping me~

It was epic~!

Posted by Tari

Dynamis Xarcabard quickly became Dynamis Bastok because–if I recall correctly–the zone was taken!

So I didn’t get my Bard pants

But I did get my Bard hands! The one piece I really wanted!

Thank you, CoD!

Total drops were~

2 x Bard

2 x RDM

1 PLD

1 SMN

1 MNK

1 BLM

2 x DRG

1 x BST

So yeah, tons of AF all around. I was hoping by some ungodly streak of luck I would be able to lot one of the RDM gloves (I was!), but my lot was something incredibly disgusting (37! zomg.). I hope I don’t lot that low on something that I’ll be lusting after later >.>;

Apart from Dynamis, the rest of the weekend was dedicated to leveling RDM and a disastrous Bhaflau Remnants run. RDM is now sitting at 4k till 52~ Need to drag Meph out to help with my AF quests. D: Elemental Staves, go go go go!

Concerning the HQ, I’ve been getting different suggestions. Breaze (zomg, met him in Quicksand caves and now we’re carring on some secret love affair~) made the comment that it really does depend on how I play and what I want..granted I’ll be getting them all eventually.

Now, I had Terra and I sold it a while ago (I don’t even remember why I did). I think I was going through the whole “FUCK BARD!” phase and was on the verge of selling everything and anything I had because the job was annoying the hell out of me. Granted the staff is much cheaper now, but I’m such a miser with my money, that I’m hesitant to drop the gil on it now for fear of bigger and better things that I may need to do–upgrade earrings and rings, etc. But…I realize I’ll have to, even if it leaves me broken inside. BROKEN.

Anyway, back to the staves. Sofo suggested Terra or Aquilo. Xerlic suggested Pluto/Aquilo/Terra. Tadieal suggested Aquilo/Pluto. Breaze suggested Terra/Pluto.

Right now I’m thinking Terra=Pluto, Aquilo. They’ll all be bought eventually, I’m just thinking which will be the most useful to me right now in the 50s~

But aside from the RDM-ness of the weekend–

At some point after Dynamis on Friday, I took off the event pearl and neglected to put on the main pearl. I was wondering why the hell it was so quiet, and I had that damn bazaar icon up, and so I missed our claim of Fafnir on…Saturday?(Boo~). lol, it sounds weird, I know. But being sleep deprived I was all..”I’m supposed to be doing something right now…but…wut?” And then proceeded to go to bed at some point.

This supposed lifestyle takes some getting used to @_@. I’ll get the hang of it!

I realized what I had done the next day and decided it would probably be best to just keep one pearl on my person at all times. So on Sunday, I did my best to get out to Dragon’s Aery and help camp.

And—

Nidhogg popped and CoD got claim~!!

I seriously sat there for like 20 seconds like “D:D:D:D:D:D: HOLY CRAP”

Then I thought…”OMG, what do I do~”

So, I run over and thanks to Alow (<3) I was told what songs to sing (Tank party!? When did I get in here!?) and did my best to keep them up and help out with curing.

The fight seemed flawless–to a newb’s eyes anyway D:–and I think we suffered only one death. I was too focused on not screwing over the whole alliance, but I heard that Subvert, another linkshell on Shiva, tried mpking us. Even when we got claim, insults were thrown, being accused of botting, blah-blah-blah.

Now, I’m not fully tied to CoD–as in, I’ve only been here for like, what, a month? But I’d like to think that my decision in linkshell was a good one. I’d like to think we don’t bot, but I’m not so ignorant or naive to yell back in DA “OMG WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT WE DON’T BOOOOOTT!!@!!~”

I’m also not so immersed in endgame that I’d start yelling at the likes of Subvert and TaruSoDelicious that they bot and they suck and that they should die in a fire. Seriously, when I read about drama in the Aery, I seriously sat there wondering, do people actually waste their time spewing these insults at each other?

Short answer: yes. Yes, they do. D: I learned first hand~

And rather than get angry, I saw my ls just going “lulz, rofl, lmao” in party and linkshell chat. There were no public answers to the accusations, no fights started from our part anyway. And I couldn’t help but laugh at all the crap that was being shouted as we quickly whacked at Nidhogg’s health.

I swear, I’ll never get so wrapped up in endgame. It’s much too hilarious for me.

You’ll all probably respond with “>:D We’ll see” after I submit this post, lol.

Anyway~ Nidhogg dies without fail and we receive two fire crystals, all the dragon crap (scalls, meat, blah), Aquarian Abjuration and the Martial Abjuration. Aquarian went to Ace and Martial went to Whisper~.

I made sure I asked for clarification for the rules of abjuration shortly after this and was happy to be informed that if effort is put into getting ToD, your chances at getting abjuration rises. Sadly, I’ll never be home to get the ToD of anything (for now anyway) but at least I know I don’t have to sell my soul in “points”. Attendance at camp is also heavily considered so…go-go Dragon Aery time!

I find that in between windows I can do a bit of a work out. lolz. D: Go go, losing weight!

———————

On Monday we did Limbus.

I DCed a totaly of *four* bloody times. Ugh, I’m not going to another event until I get a better tower–I’m pretty sure my connection is not the only reason behind this madness!

Thank you all for putting up with me -_-;

I did get some coins out of it though…even though I begged and pleaded someone else take them. 14/150. I think I’ll be a heavy Limbus-attendee…

One day!

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